Susan Stinson Explained

Susan Stinson is an American writer. She has published four novels and a collection of poetry.

Born in Texas and raised in Colorado, she currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she is writer in residence at the Forbes Library.^[1] She is an out lesbian.^[2]

Awards

Stinson was awarded the Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize in 2011.^[3] Her novel Venus of Chalk was a Lambda Literary Award finalist and was named one of the ten best books of the year by Publishing Triangle, and she is a past winner of the Independent Book Publishers Association's Benjamin Franklin Award for Fiction.

Works

• Belly Songs (1993)
• Fat Girl Dances with Rocks (1994,)
• Martha Moody (1995,)
• Venus of Chalk (2004,)
• Spider in a Tree (2013,)

External links

• Susan Stinson

Notes and References

1. http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/06/northampton_writer_inspiration.html "Susan Stinson of Northampton proud to be writer in residence at Forbes Library"
2. http://www.masslive.com/living/index.ssf/2011/05/post_62.html "LGBT writer finds freedom as novelist"
3. http://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/04/21/alex-sanchez-susan-stinson-mid-career/ "Alex Sanchez and Susan Stinson Awarded Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists’ Prize"